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I've used Linux a couple of times in my life. First we had an Ubuntu Desktop as our family pc for a while, back in the early 2000's. It did the job, mostly, but you couldn't do much besides the basics. Wine existed, but it was very hit or miss and as a teenager I couldn't figure it out.

Later on I installed Mint on an old notebook to have a functioning portable device, but I barely touched that thing as I already had my first gaming PC.

Now here I am, installed CachyOS on my 10 year old desktop and it runs perfectly smooth. I would like a GPU upgrade, as my GTX1060 is getting old, but I played Hogwarts Legacy on it today and it ran quite well.

To anyone who's still on the fence about switching over, do it! It's absolutely worth it!

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Trying to set up a Meta Quest 2 for VR on linux via ALVR/SteamVR, but i had too many issues with ZorinOS 17.3 and ended up uninstalling it for windows 10 that freezes every 5 minutes (yippee). Unsure what would be the better distro to use over ZorinOS, or if i should try 18 before anything else?

My current specs are:

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
RTX 4070
32gb DDR5 @ 6000mt/s
MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk

EDIT: I unfortunately dont have any information on why ZorinOS didnt work as i "rage uninstalled" it, but i recall that after trying to update Pipewire to have sound work on the VR headset, SteamVR kept reporting "Failed to connect to Window Manager", in which i made the very "smart" decision to install KDE Plasma over GNOME where i misconfigured it and messed up my entire system...

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I know arch/cachy are rolling based and gets new updates right away. But I am someone who is used to of using ubuntu and debian based commands. I have 5600x, and 9060xt

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I am considering switching to linux but i have some locally saved game files (pirated games hence locally), I want to continue to use them but in what file directory are game save files stored in linux? Preferably want a game to automatically find the save file.

if distro matters for this: probably gonna use fedora/nobara

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Hello I am a new user of linux opensuse tumbleweed :)

Since I started using the system, I encountered the same problem with some games (especially the resident evil series). Sometimes the game works perfectly, but other times (often) I face this issue where the game doesn't run a window with this phrase appears (D3D12CreateDeviceFailed) it asks me to restart my computer but that doesn’t solve the problem . I tried changing the Proton version several times, but nothing changed. I also tried using DirectX 11, and I updated the system, but nothing changed. These were the solutions I found on the internet while searching, but none of them worked… I really don't know because the game works sometimes and then won’t open sometimes. Please, if any of you know the solution to the problem, let me know.

I use steam to game and my gpu is ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti if that’s helps

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Hello people, im a new Linux User, thinking about switch from windows, and i would like to know whats the best distro for programing, browsing, normal computer user and gaming, since idk what distro are compatible with some anticheats etc, im really new in this world

I never used Linux in my life so it will be my first time

thanks in advance :D

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I’ve just installed Bazzite on a new build for a plug and play pc project. Never really used linux, except in my teenage years (ubuntu). Right now I’m only using the integrated graphics on my 7700x, but I’m thinking of getting a 9060xt soon. Newbie question: Will I have to reinstall the amd drivers? If thats so, can i just straight download drivers from AMD? Can I upgrade hardware without having to reinstall the whole OS? Thank you in advance!

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I finally got on linux mint again and managed to set up 7.1 virtual surround sound via pipewire following this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tymRFhUiXVQ

I did everything exactly as the video says and it does work, it's just that it stops working after a while or in a game. To be specific both back and middle speakers stop working same with bass. What I found that fixes itself is to set the audio output to what it was originally then restart my pc, switch to virtual surround sink, test and it works, but only for. im literally loosing my mind

little update: it breaks as soon as i reopen the sound settings and test audio after i switched to surround sound sink

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Hello everyone! I am a linux noob, i havent daily driven a linux distro for about 15 years now and i am ready to return! i like gaming (single player 99% of the time) and i use my pc everyday for my work so i want something that is good for both. i have no problem with a little bit of tweaking but i am not looking for something that i am gonna need a whole day just to install a game on it. So after a lot of reading i am between Mint and Pop Os... as far as i understand mint is more stable than pop os but drivers are a bit outdated (i guess bad for gaming) plus i like the ui a lot vs pop os that has the latest drivers but it is not always as stable.... What do you guys think based on your experience? is there a problem if you do not always have the latest drivers? or is there a fps boost on pop os since it is gaming oriented? Is it possible to install the latest drivers on mint even if the version of the os has not been updated? as far as i understand i can install the xanmod kernel and the mesa drivers, will this be the same with pop os after that?? thanks

ps: my rig is
cpu: ryzen 5600x
gpu: amd rx9070xt (big consern for the drivers, new card and every update counts)
ram:32gb

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MY SPECS:

OS: Kubuntu 24.04.3 LTS x86_64
CPU: Ryzen 5 7535HS
GPU: Radeon RX 6500M

I've noticed that heavy games/programs run like absolute shit, and checking neofetch/lspci/lshw it seems like my dedicated GPU is not detected.
I've tried searching on the internet but almost all of the solutions/problems are from NVIDIA and I haven't been able to find a way to use the dedicated GPU, wine programs, steam games or anything else, my PC doesn't seem to detect it.

Any way to fix this?? I can't disable the iGPU because HP is a little bitch and their BIOS is abysmal.

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Recently bought a new PC with a 5080.

I can use Win10 till october but seeing videos about cachyos makes me want to switch.

Will the drivers and DX12 situation improve any time soon, or should i buy a 9070XT?

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I’m playing arc raiders and trying to play stretched res however I keep getting this limited camera issue, google says it can be a couple of things but probably polling rates being too high, I tried every other issues fix and to no avail so I’m sure it’s the polling rate, and apparently my specific mouse ignores kernel modules, and isn’t supported on Any of the popular tools I’ve found, google made it seem like if I set it on Logitech g hub it would stay the same, booted up windows, changed polling rate, logged back onto arch hyprland, absolutely no difference, this is really annoying when all I’m trying to do is get better pvp settings :(

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when i checked in terminal it showed some dxvk and vulkan erro
this is what i get in error
INFO 2026-01-20 23:08:13,688 [application.do_command_line:478]:Starting Lutris 0.5.19

INFO 2026-01-20 23:08:13,706 [startup.run_all_checks:120]:"card1" is AMD Radeon RX 7600 (1002:7480 1043:061b amdgpu) Driver 25.1.9

DEBUG 2026-01-20 23:08:13,937 [xrandr.get_resolutions:91]:Retrieving resolution list

DEBUG 2026-01-20 23:08:13,952 [xrandr._get_vidmodes:18]:Retrieving 20 video modes from XrandR

DEBUG 2026-01-20 23:08:14,035 [path_cache._update_missing_games:114]:Checking for missing games

DEBUG 2026-01-20 23:08:14,063 [api.check_stale_runtime_versions:52]:Modified at Tue 20 Jan 2026 11:02:03 PM , will update after Wed 21 Jan 2026 05:02:03 AM

DEBUG 2026-01-20 23:08:14,066 [lutriswindow.create_runtime_updater_cb:1384]:Runtime up to date

DEBUG 2026-01-20 23:08:15,591 [grid.on_item_activated:97]:Item activated: 14

DEBUG 2026-01-20 23:08:15,794 [xrandr.get_outputs:26]:Retrieving display outputs

DEBUG 2026-01-20 23:08:15,809 [xrandr._get_vidmodes:18]:Retrieving 20 video modes from XrandR

lutris-wrapper: max payn3

Started initial process 9063 from gamemoderun mangohud /home/rony2039/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-26-x86_64/bin/wine /home/rony2039/Games/max-payn3/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/DODI-Repacks/Max Payne 3/MaxPayne3.exe

Start monitoring process.

gamemodeauto:

gamemodeauto:

gamemodeauto:

fsync: up and running.

wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely

[2026-01-20 23:08:17.540] [MANGOHUD] [info] [blacklist.cpp:83] process 'explorer.exe' is blacklisted in MangoHud

err: DxvkInstance: Required instance extensions not supported

Monitored process exited.

No return code

DEBUG 2026-01-20 23:08:18,379 [monitored_command.on_stop:232]:Process 9061 has terminated with code 0

DEBUG 2026-01-20 23:08:19,820 [game.beat:910]:Game thread stopped

WARNING 2026-01-20 23:08:19,821 [game.on_game_quit:948]:Game still running (state: running)

INFO 2026-01-20 23:08:19,821 [game.stop:921]:Stopping max payn3 (wine)

DEBUG 2026-01-20 23:08:19,822 [game.stop_game:877]:max payn3 (wine) has run for 4 seconds

WARNING 2026-01-20 23:08:19,822 [game.stop_game:879]:The game has run for a very short time, did it crash?

DEBUG 2026-01-20 23:08:19,823 [game.stop_game:889]:Playtime: 1 hour 14 minutes

DEBUG 2026-01-20 23:08:19,823 [game.on_game_quit:966]:max payn3 stopped at Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:08:19

DEBUG 2026-01-20 23:08:19,864 [application.on_game_stopped:791]:Removing 14 from running IDs

DEBUG 2026-01-20 23:08:19,943 [path_cache.add_to_path_cache:47]:Adding max payn3 (wine) to path cache

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Hey everyone, I’m currently searching for a Linux distro that still fully supports X11, because my needs really depend on it. I’ve noticed that a lot of popular distros are moving toward Wayland-only by default, and I want to explain why that doesn’t really work for me right now. Here’s what I need: Stretch resolutions for games (e.g., 1440×1080 in Dead by Daylight) Vibrance / color enhancements via tools like vkBasalt or Vibrant Linux Stable NVIDIA GPU support, including NVENC for OBS Steam + Proton compatibility for gaming KDE Plasma preferred, but not strictly required General desktop use: browsing, Discord voice, lightweight video capturing From what I’ve seen, Wayland doesn’t currently allow some of these features: Stretch resolutions without black bars are tricky or impossible GPU-layer post-processing (vibrance, CAS shaders, ReShade-like effects) often won’t work NVIDIA X Server Settings can’t control scaling properly I’d love any suggestions from the community about: Distros that will continue supporting X11 reliably for the next several years Tips on getting vibrance / stretch resolution working on NVIDIA under X11 Any other KDE-friendly setups for gaming that you’d recommend

Thanks in advance!

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So I started using linux some month ago and everything as been somewhat fine I'm a giant noob but even the most special problem have been solved by the community.

Since I mainly wished to use my linux computer for gaming, I installed steam and some emulator, for most of it everything went fine, all my games were running well natively or with proton/wine. But with LiS : Before the Storm, I juste can't wrap my head around what is y problem.

First the game didn't work at all, then I followed this guide on this subreddit, which was recommended on protondb.

Then the game worked, for 30 good minutes, then it crashed and wouldn't open again (as a native game or with proton/GE-proton).

But the strangest is : I can launch the game actually, but only after I try to open it with GE-Proton10-20 (which give me a black screen) and then re-launch it natively.

Idk why that happen, it's not a big deal but it's kind of an hassle to redownload everything every time. So if someone made this game work I would really appreciate your help

Sry for my English it's my second language

+ I'm on linux mint and everything from steam to mint is up to date.

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The aim is to have more transparent access to wine prefixes and the surrounding tooling (winetricks, proton configuration, etc...) per game in comparison to Lutris. Same features like statistics (time played, times launched, times crashed, and so on) per game is available in this app. All configuration and state is explicit and user-controlled, with minimal hidden or implicit behavior.

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